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ESS acquires Goodfeller & Co. and Jeff. Goodfeller himself took over the banner and spent nearly a month on Jeff. Goodfeld's prior technical data and R&D records were collated, and it was confirmed that Jeff Goodfeller had actually obtained the technology before a number of patents in the field of mobile e-mail technology were registered with NTP and VISTO. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Kumho could submit relevant documents to the U.S. Patent Office through Goodfeller, in which it has a full controlling stake, and request the U.S. Patent Office to declare the relevant patents owned by NTP and VISTO invalid, but this is not in Kumho's interests, and instead it is in Kumho's interest to request that Goodfeller and VISTO obtain the same rights as the two companies in respect of the relevant patents free of charge.

Because Goodfeller was able to produce detailed and effective documentation, and had the ability to submit a detailed and effective record of the material through Jeff. The new R&D team under the leadership of Goodfeller developed new technical solutions to circumvent existing basic patents, and after negotiations, NTP and VISTO soon reached a settlement agreement with ESS. Goodfeller paid $10 million to the two companies for a total of 12 in-depth licenses of the underlying patents.

At that time, there were only 32 basic patents in the field of mobile e-mail technology registered with the U.S. Patent Office, and Kumho held in-depth licenses for 12 of them, which means that Kumho had full rights to the patents derived from these 12 basic patents.

Zhang Ke thought to himself that even if they did not develop their mobile email business in the North American market, after the success of RIM's BlackBerry phone, they could follow NTP and Visto to bite a piece of meat from RIM, and at this time they would not suffer a loss by taking out 10 million US dollars.

At the same time, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed a lawsuit in the United District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against Kumho's iPlayer business for violating its intellectual property rights by deliberately and laxly enforcing users to download a large amount of music on the Internet without compensation, and requested a ban on Kumho's sale of iPlayers in the United States and $53.7 million in damages.

Kumho, on the other hand, requested the court to dismiss the Recording Industry Association of America (LPA) lawsuit through the North American Company on behalf of Aida Group, declaring that it could not oppose technological progress under the pretext of protecting intellectual property rights, and asking the Recording Industry Association of America to pay attention to the positive significance of DMP-iPLAYER technology in promoting the dissemination of audiovisual works through the Internet.

Although Chinese companies are often sued in the United States for patent infringement and intellectual property infringement, it is extremely rare for such a large amount of compensation to be claimed. What is even more surprising to the US media and the public is that when a Chinese company is sued in the United States, almost no enterprise will stand up to respond to the lawsuit -- this is mainly because China has not yet joined the GATT in '99, and the domestic enterprises do not have a deep enough understanding of intellectual property rights, let alone the experience of fighting intellectual property lawsuits in the international arena -- there is no such high-profile enterprise as Kumho that responds to the lawsuit and even asks the plaintiff to reflect on it, and this immediately arouses great repercussions among the US media and the public.

Before responding to the lawsuit, Kumho executives were aware that the lawsuit would be beneficial to expand AIDA's brand influence in North America, but there was no accurate prediction of how far it would go.

I only realized that Scottber, Toshiba, Samsung, and other companies that sell iPlayer in North America, as well as Deyi (a joint venture between Deyi and Kumho that owns the core hardware architecture technology of iPlayer), would not want Kumho to lose the lawsuit.

In fact, the IP dispute caused by the Recording Industry Association's lawsuit against Aida is the focus of conflict between traditional audio-visual audio manufacturers and Internet content providers. Traditional audio-visual audio manufacturers want to adopt stricter legal measures against intellectual property rights to prevent piracy and infringement, while Internet content providers want a more relaxed legal environment to promote the development of the Internet industry.

The Federal District Court's infringement judgment in Kumho is typical, and there has been an almost overwhelming outpouring of support for Kumho on Internet content sites in North America.

After the Recording Industry Association of America filed a lawsuit, after a lot of media reports in the United States, Kumho's iPlayer sales in North America surged by 130% that month, equaling Scooper's sales, and also prompting iPlayer's shipments in North America to exceed 260,000 pieces in February, just one step away from surpassing MD Player's performance in North America.

For Kumho, as long as this lawsuit does not lose too badly, it is enough.

In February, North America generated a profit of $4 million due to a surge in sales, which was also the first month of profit after the iPlayer product was introduced to the market.

In addition to this, Kumho's joint venture with Deyi controls the DMP-iPlayer core hardware architecture technology, and Kumho holds a separate stake in other important hardware and software architecture technologies other than flash memory, and nearly every iPlayer manufacturer in these areas has to give Kumho a flick in the field - in February, Kumho also received $4 million in these areas.

This also officially means that iplayer has become the third main business of AIDA Group in addition to video players and mobile phones.

In March, Jianye was still in early spring, and at noon, the sun was warm and Xi, and it was comfortable for people to sit in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, but the report on his knees made Zhang Ke feel a headache.

"It can't be reduced anymore," Chen Xinsheng sat opposite Zhang Ke, "In 98, 15 million mobile phones were sold in China, and our market share was 14%, and the sales of 2 million mobile phones in the domestic market alone were close to 9 billion yuan, and it seems that it is difficult to control the annual sales of Aida below 10 billion yuan...... In addition, the Ministry of Information Industry collects tax and other data, which we cannot arbitrarily delete. ”

"How much can Huaxia Electronics' data do?" Zhang Ke looked up at Chen Xinsheng, the country has to rank the top 100 in the electronics industry every year, and Aida Group has suddenly entered the top three from more than 40 last year, which seems to be a little too dazzling.

"Huaxia Electronics can't learn from us, their sales in 98 years can make about 20 billion, which is a cut higher than us," Chen Xinsheng said, "In addition, we will allocate more profits to the component department, and the data will look better." ”

Kumho's mobile phone business gross profit of more than 40%, because most of its enterprises are still in the tax reduction period, the tax burden is lighter, and the net profit is more than 30%, while the net profit of Huaxia Electronics' mobile phone business is only one-third of Kumho's.

Zhang Ke nodded and said: "It's good to go to the head of the components department, it doesn't seem to be a matter of hiding it now, I can make the data look better this year, but it will still be a headache next year——"

"Others still envy your headache," Chen Xinsheng said with a smile, "In 98, the total number of mobile users increased by 11 million, this year there is competition from Unicom, plus the Chinese SMS business will gradually develop, the inappropriate charge of huge card purchase fees will be directly cut, and the communication cost will also drop significantly, I see that the total number of mobile users will be doubled on this basis, and the sales volume of mobile phones in the domestic market will exceed 30 million pieces, our goal is to maintain the fourth and strive for the third to achieve this goal, Our domestic sales of mobile phones in '99 will reach 4 million units, and the sales volume will be about 15 billion yuan -- we can barely get into the top three this year, and we will definitely enter the top three next year......

"A year of delay, it's also good, for some officials, it can be regarded as a process of acceptance, at least as far as I know, Geng Chongyang is a stubborn state-owned monopoly, our scenery is too ostentatious, he will subconsciously give us some pressure." Zhang Ke smiled, stood up and returned the report to Chen Xinsheng.

The second meeting of 29 people will be held in the next two days, and the annual financial data of Kumho's enterprises will also be released one after another, and when Kumho Commercial has not even completed the preliminary layout, Aida Group, as one of the two cores of Kumho system, naturally has to take the lead, and its net profit in 98 is close to 4 billion yuan.

In the past two years, Kumho backdoor listing from the Hong Kong securities market rolled up four billion, has been shocking people's eyeballs, and at this time is only a year of profit of Aida Group, the entire complex Kumho system generated profits are even more amazing, Aida Electronics has entered a stable profit period, Shengxin Electric, Xinguang Paper, Xiangxuehai and other enterprises have entered the track of rapid development.

Speaking of Xiang Xuehai, Zhang Ke is going to Huishan in the near future, Xiang Xuehai also has about 24% of the equity held by the Huishan Light Industry Bureau on behalf of the Huishan Municipal Government, only the first Xiang Xuehai's equity relationship is straightened out, and the future can be smoothly listed on the Hong Kong stock market.

At the beginning of 96 years, the equity held by the Huishan Light Industry Bureau was valued at 300 million yuan, in 97 years, Kumho once again injected capital into Xiang Xuehai through Yuexiu, and the equity held by the Huishan Light Industry Bureau increased to 400 million, 98 years, Xiang Xuehai's performance through the fertilization of CCTV standard king, increased nearly twice on the basis of 97 years, the value of the equity held by the Huishan Light Industry Bureau naturally rose again, and the price of 800 million yuan has been negotiated, plus the profits and dividends of the past period of time, The Huishan Municipal Government also took 900 million yuan from Xiangxuehai's head, which was four times the original price offered by the HG Samsung Group -- when the contract was officially signed, Zhang Ke still had to go to Huishan in person to meet Zhao Yang.